That’s what Engadget are reporting. They have a source within B&N (I wish I had one) that is telling them: We’ve received hard evidence from within B&N that the Nook is being discontinued, with sales to seemingly continue until stock is exhausted. The outfit is encouraging retail partners to not send out any “bulk requests” [...]
Entries from January 24th, 2011
B&N to discontinue the Nook 3G?
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware rumors
Tags:3g·bn·discontinue·nook
Thalia Oyo to get 3G next month
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, Sipix
As you might recall from when the Oyo was launched last fall, Thalia had promised a 3G equipped model. I was just sent a link to the pre-order page for the Oyo 3G on the Thalia website. It’s shipping on 10 February with a retail of 189 €. The Oyo is based on a 6″ [...]
Oceanhouse Media have sold 1 million ebook apps in iTunes
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Michel Kripalani, founder and president of Oceanhouse Media, Inc., today announced the company has crossed the one million mark in paid app downloads on Apple’s App Store. Kripalani will be a panelist at this week’s Digital Book World Conference and Expo in New York on Jan. 26 where he’ll discuss the [...]
Australia’s first indie ebookstore has launched
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
A new ebookstore launched last week in Australia, but I didn’t cover it. I kinda got distracted by Chris Walter’s commentary (and the ensuing debate) on browser based ebooks, and I forgot to write about the ebookstore itself. Readings Booksellers is an indie bookstore chain with 6 stores in and around Melbourne, Australia. The ebookstore [...]
Tags:australias·ebookstore·indie·launches·spunc·um
Explay TXT.Book.B67 coming to Russia
January 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The Russian consumer electronics company Explay have just announced a new e-reader. The TXT.Book.B67 is based on a 6″ E-ink screen. It ships with 4GB Flash, a SD card slot, touchscreen, accelerometer, FM radio, and a speaker. Ebook format support includesEpub, PDF, txt. html, RTF, and Mobi. The product page also boasts of a drawing [...]
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B&N boast 650 thousand digital magazines sold in the past 2 months
January 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · press release
From the press release: Barnes & Noble is experiencing robust NOOKnewsstand (www.NOOKnewsstand.com) sales since it brought touch and full, rich color to a wide array of digital magazines and leading newspapers when it began shipping NOOKcolor, the first full-color touch Reader’s Tablet. The company announced digital periodical sales are exceeding expectations with more than 650,000 [...]
What’s in a word?
January 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
If you’ve been reading or watching the news in the past month, you can’t help but notice the furor over new editions of Tom Sawyer and Hckleberry Finn that will soon be released by Alan Gribben. These new editions will probably come to be known as the expurgated edition and they have one important change: [...]
Tags:word
Making B&N Number One
January 24th, 2011 · 7 Comments · opinion
As we know, the two ebooktailer giant in the United States are Barnes & Noble and Amazon. And, as we know, Amazon is currently the number 1 ebooktailer. But there is no reason why B&N, with a bit of shrewdness, can’t move closer to or takeover the number 1 position. I’m prepared to make one suggestion [...]
Baen to raise price of Webscriptions
January 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Toni Weisskopf, the Publisher at Baen Books, recently posted this bit of news on Baen’s Webscription ebookstore. (Yes, the monthly ebook deal is the same name as the ebookstore.) Hi Webscription Customers, I’m writing to announce a price increase in the normal monthly Webscription price. We will continue to guarantee four titles and deliver six [...]
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Tired of your Kindle? Have I got a deal for you
January 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
There’s a bookstore in Portland, Oregon that will take your Kindle as a trade in for store credit. Microcosm Publishing are running this offer to the end of the month, and it’s only good at their store (mail-in not accepted). So someone has to be there in person (which they would anyway, in order to [...]
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